… ditto.
Actually, I know a few “net-workers” who make a more than a decent living in the field, particularly in the Washington DC area, where who you know could be very, very important… and lucrative. Sometimes, they are known as “lobbyists.” Case in point: those Capitol Hill politicians that go to work for the private sector [large law firms] for millions and millions of dollars… precisely because who they know…

I get the point of the original post but truth is, especially in large cities, there are plenty of people who make a living being “brokers.” That can mean many things but often it is the business of hook-ups. The guy in Forbes is guilty of bad promotion – which would scare me off.